Bert Vogelstein, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Bert Vogelstein

American oncologist

Date of Birth: 02-Jun-1949

Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Profession: scientist, university teacher, oncologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Bert Vogelstein (born 1949) is Director of the Ludwig Center, Clayton Professor of Oncology and Pathology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at The Johns Hopkins Medical School and Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center.
A pioneer in the field of cancer genomics, his studies on colorectal cancers revealed that they result from the sequential accumulation of mutations in oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes.
These studies now form the paradigm for modern cancer research and provided the basis for the notion of the somatic evolution of cancer.
Together with Martin Nowak at Harvard University, he developed many mathematical models to understand the evolutionary process of cancer which lead to various hypotheses about mechanisms and timing of progression and seeding of metastases.